Rohtak: Health Department team Rohtak busted a gang involved in sex determination of fetuses running in village Sarurpur Kalan in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh. The team has caught six people including a woman doctor of Rohtak city red handed involved in doing sex determination of fetus of pregnant women sending them from Rohtak to UP to find out the sex of unborn child in the womb by Dr. Riya Sehgal running a clinic near Jat Bhawan. A portable machine and Rs 24,000 was recovered. The health department team had received information that pregnant women from Rohtak were being taken to Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh for sex determination of the foetus.
The Deputy Commissioner and Civil Surgeon Rohtak formed a PC and PNDT team which conducted raid at Baghpat along with the police chasing the accused a distance of nearly 450km by the health department team comprising of the nodal officer PNDT Dr. Vishwajit Rathi, medical officers Dr. Vishal Chaudhary and Dr. Mohit Gill, SMO Dr. Sanjeev Malik, dental surgeon Dr. Vikas Saini, AMO Dr. Vijay. MPHW Ranjit, IA Deepak Sharma, Joginder, HC Rajesh Balhara and police personnel and arrested six people including two women named Reena and Santosh while doing sex determination of foetus was being done with a portable machine in the house of Sahib Singh in village Sarurpur in Baghpat by Pradeep Kumar Tyagi. This pregnant woman prepared by the health department was sent to Sarurpur along with two women through Dr Mahendra. The deal for the test was done for Rs.65,000.
Earlier, the health department team had also raided on 14th December to expose the business of sex determination of fetuses going on in Baghpat. At that time, the gang members suspected that a member of the health department team was among them. Due to this, the gang members refused to do the test and gave the time of 17th December. Clinic operator Dr. Riya Sehgal, who reached Baghpat via Delhi gave the number of the pregnant woman. After this, a woman named Reena came to Delhi bypass at the scheduled time and sat in the car with the pregnant woman. Another female member of the gang Santosh, also boarded the car in Peeragarhi.
On the way, they took Rahul Bhati along with them. Later, a young man named Dr. Pradeep Kumar Tyagi took everyone to Sarurpur village in Baghpat. Here, Pradeep Kumar Tyagi did the fetal sex test with a portable machine in Sahib Singh’s house, where a person named Shivraj was also present. The health department team accompanied by police caught them red-handed. During investigation, Rs 16 thousand were recovered from Rahul Bhati and Rs 8 thousand from Pradeep Kumar Tyagi. The portable ultrasound machines were also seized. A case has been registered against the gang of six arrested and the female doctor who runs a clinic near Jat Bhawan had a major role in this illegal business.
